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Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder was a collaborative album released in 1984 by Philip Oakey, lead singer of the electronic band The Human League and seminal electo producer Giorgio Moroder (whose early records had been a major influence on Oakey).

The album is most notable for containing the song "Together in Electric Dreams", which was the title track for the movie Electric Dreams and a major hit single. In fact, the album was essentially a spin-off project set up by Virgin records to capitalise on the succes of the single.

The album consists mainly of sequenced beats, along with dinstinctly FM-generated bell-like sounds, and a number of sounds generated by analog synthesizers. Interestingly enough, this album uses very little sampling. Notable, also, is that the first five songs on this album (the entire first side on the original LP version) are seguéd together.

After recording this album, Philip Oakey returned to work on the next Human Leage album, Crash.

The Human League still perform "Electric Dreams" at their concerts, usually with Philip Oakey giving named credit to Giorgio Moroder.

In 2003, in an interview by Simon Price included on the Human League "Very Best of" DVD, Oakey was asked to comment on the experience of working with his idol Moroder on this project. He diplomatically characterises him as a "very quick worker", claiming they made the entire album in a few days.